Cherish your freshman year memories
A cliché often becomes a cliché because it is true.
The college years are the best years of your life is a cliché because it is true.
For those lucky enough to go to college, and for the luckier ones who go to the University of Nevada, no comma or Reno, the college years are the time between the “real world” and childhood.
The traditional 18-to-23-year-old crowd faces few real responsibilities. We worry about the guy or girl we met at the party and if our English professor will know we only read the first half of the book for the paper we wrote 20 minutes before class.
We spend time with friends, books, video games and the Web. We don’t worry so much about careers, marriages, our own children or mortgages. It’s nice.
Make the most of it.
Go to the party on Friday. Join the Qdoba club. Hit Pub ‘N Sub for half-off Mondays and Fridays. Cheer on the Wolf Pack in any sport it plays. Learn to hate that glorified community college down south.
Enjoy yourself.
College won’t always be fun and stress may seem routine. After all, financial aid is fragile, school is costly and due dates creep up fast.
But, if the university budget doesn’t tighten further, we’ll have our advisors, the people at the financial aid office and counseling services to fall back on, though hopefully the latter isn’t needed too badly.
Remember that every person employed at the university has a job because of you and your peers. They are here to help you leave the University of Nevada with a diploma in your hand and fond memories in your mind. Don’t be afraid to ask for their help.
Do the most with your time here. Learn a few things outside your major and talk to people you normally wouldn’t, including the Christian preachers screaming about how we are all going to hell (expect them in the fall).
Whatever you major is, make sure to walk away a better person because of the four, five, six or however many years spent here.
From The Nevada Sagebrush staff, may your blood turn Nevada Blue, your brain work a little harder, your debt stay low and your experiences change you forever.
But most importantly, may these college years be the best years of your life and you can look back at them and smile.
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